This troubling.
According this report by @CrisisGroup, #ISWAP is providing locals in areas it controls with services our federal and state governments have failed to provide cities, town and villages all over the country.
crisisgroup.org/africa/west-af…
1/5
1. The group provides security to local people including fighting banditry and cattle rustling.
2. It provides judicial services through settling farmer-herder disputes, allocating grazing lands and adjudication.
3. It constructs infrastructure including latrines.
2/5
4. It provides education (Islamic) and heath care including procuring medicine and organising the transfer of seriously ill patients to hospitals.
5. It encourages economic development by reviving rural trade and giving micro-loans to local youth and farmers.
3/5
These are precisely the services Nigerian politicians have woefully failed to provide in Zamfara, Katsina, Benue, the #LakeChad basin and all over.
ISWAP's strategy risks convincing locals that #BokoHaram is better in leadership, justice & compassion than politicians.
4/5
With this, ISWAP is winning the heart and minds of people. It is the way Taliban sustained popular support for decades in parts of Afghanistan.
Governments must do more not only in the hard approach to but also in addressing root causes and providing basic services.
5/5
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